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Title: Anybody cut glitter vinyl?
Post by: Prosperi-Tees on October 03, 2013, 06:16:07 PM

This glitter vinyl has to be the biggest PIA we have ever cut. What are your settings when cutting this stuff?

Title: Re: Anybody cut glitter vinyl?
Post by: Gilligan on October 03, 2013, 06:27:36 PM

I don't know the details... but we've done it.

Only hang up I recall is that it couldn't be layered.

Title: Re: Anybody cut glitter vinyl?
Post by: Im-Magic on October 03, 2013, 07:31:22 PM

It is very hard so you have to use a lot of pressure around 80gm and sometimes we set it up to cut twice.

Title: Re: Anybody cut glitter vinyl?
Post by: Homer on October 03, 2013, 07:39:21 PM

gotta use the right blade, make sure you have a 45 and 60 degree blade on hand. try the 60 on the thicker stuff.

Title: Re: Anybody cut glitter vinyl?
Post by: Gilligan on October 03, 2013, 08:32:18 PM

I guess we just got lucky, or I'm not giving my wife enough credit. ;)

Title: Re: Anybody cut glitter vinyl?
Post by: Prosperi-Tees on October 05, 2013, 01:38:21 PM

Ok I have not figured out what is going on with our cutter. We can cut shirt vinyl and sign vinyl but glitter and rhinestone material is a no go. We took the glitter to our neighbors who have a 60" Graphtec and it cut the glitter like nothing and weeded as easy as regular vinyl. Maybe it is time for an upgrade to servo motor cutter.

Title: Re: Anybody cut glitter vinyl?
Post by: Gilligan on October 05, 2013, 04:27:59 PM

Ah, we have a graphtec. ;)

Title: Re: Anybody cut glitter vinyl?
Post by: Prosperi-Tees on October 05, 2013, 04:28:53 PM

I should have bought your Roland!

Title: Re: Anybody cut glitter vinyl?
Post by: Gilligan on October 05, 2013, 04:50:33 PM

LOL

Title: Re: Anybody cut glitter vinyl?
Post by: Prosperi-Tees on October 05, 2013, 05:27:18 PM

I may start looking. My wife is doing rhinestones and has gotten discouraged I think because of our cutter not really doing to well with that material.

Title: Re: Anybody cut glitter vinyl?
Post by: Gilligan on October 05, 2013, 06:00:20 PM

Need a 15" graphtec?

Title: Re: Anybody cut glitter vinyl?
Post by: Frog on October 06, 2013, 01:06:29 AM

I've been giving one some thought

Title: Re: Anybody cut glitter vinyl?
Post by: Gilligan on October 06, 2013, 01:16:46 AM

I have to cut the wife's new business a marquee.  So, I'll be upgrading in the next week or so.

Title: Re: Anybody cut glitter vinyl?
Post by: Sbrem on October 06, 2013, 10:16:12 AM

A quality machine will pay for itself over and over and over. We have a Roland PNC-1100, circa '93. We bought it with Flexi-Sign and a copy of Photoshop 2.0 bundle, mostly to cut Rubylith for election signs. We have more than gotten our money out of it. Though we haven't tried the glitter yet, we have been cutting an awful lot of reflective from Siser, and have found for that material, a 60° blade does a much better job than a 45°. Roland, Graphtec, Summa, Ioline are all good brands, and I bet you can find a used one easily enough.

Steve

Title: Re: Anybody cut glitter vinyl?
Post by: Denis Kolar on October 07, 2013, 07:46:35 AM

Got no issues cutting glitter or a rhinestone material.

I had a 24" Graphtec that I sold, now I have 54" Grapghtec FC8600 which is a beast.